Aben, FM;
Doan, M-L;
Mitchell, TM;
(2020)
Variation of hydraulic properties due to dynamic fracture damage: Implications for fault zones.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
, 125
(4)
, Article e2019JB018919. 10.1029/2019jb018919.
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Abstract
High strain rate loading causes pervasive dynamic microfracturing in crystalline materials, with dynamic pulverization being the extreme end-member. Hydraulic properties (permeability, porosity, and storage capacity) are primarily controlled by fracture damage and will therefore change significantly by intense dynamic fracturing—by how much is currently unknown. Dynamic fracture damage observed in the damage zones of seismic faults is thought to originate from dynamic stresses near the earthquake rupture tip. This implies that during an earthquake, hydraulic properties in the damage zone change early. The immediate effect this has on fluid-driven coseismic slip processes following the rupture, and on postseismic and interseismic fault zone processes, is not yet clear. Here, we present hydraulic properties measured on the full range of dynamic fracture damage up to dynamic pulverization. Dynamic damage was induced in quartz-monzonite samples by performing uniaxial high strain rate (> 100 s−1) experiments in compression using a split-Hopkinson pressure bar. Hydraulic properties were measured on samples subjected to single and successive loadings, the latter to simulate cumulative damage from repeated rupture events. We show that permeability increases by 6 orders of magnitude and porosity by 15% with dissipated energy up to dynamic pulverization, for both single and successive loadings. We present damage zone permeability profiles induced by earthquake rupture and how it evolves with repeated ruptures. We propose that the enhanced hydraulic properties measured for pulverized rock decrease the efficiency of thermal pressurization, when emplaced adjacent to the principal slip zone.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Variation of hydraulic properties due to dynamic fracture damage: Implications for fault zones |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2019jb018919 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018919 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10093926 |
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